XF 2.2 Move from mydomain.com/forums to forums.mydomain.com

[ForumLover]

My hosting company is not being very supportive. Can someone tell me the best step by step method for moving our forums from ourdomain/forums to a subdomain forums.ourdomain.com ?

 

[Paul B]

Configure the sub domain on the server, move the files, update the Board URL in the ACP.

Point 5 of the FAQ covers it in more detail: https://xenforo.com/community/threads/frequently-asked-questions.5183/#post-180455

 

[Chromaniac]

and also set redirections! apache can be done using htaccess.

 

[Alan_SP]

move the files

From what he wants to do, he doesn't need to move files, they are already in directory. He just needs to setup subdomain to that directory, call it as he like it and setup .htaccess rule for redirection, so people (and the rest of internet, of course) can find it and use it. And, of course, XF ACP thingy.

 

[briansol]

I would highly recommend against doing this.

 

[webbouk]

move the files, update the Board URL in the ACP

I found it better to replace the Board URL prior to moving the files otherwise I could not log into the ACP

(Unless that was just me )

 

[MySiteGuy]

There's nothing to prevent you from logging into the admin cp no matter what the url is in the settings. Put "admin.php" in the URL and Xenforo doesn't care about the settings, it will take you straight to the admin panel. They probably do this specifically to keep you from being locked out.

 

[Mr Lucky]

There's nothing to prevent you from logging into the admin cp no matter what the url is in the settings.

I think I had this issue with vbulletin, so would change the URL before dumping the database.

But never an issue with xenForo